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Virginia Ann Foxx
Representative · R-NC
Representative · R-NC
The bill buys Congress time and avoids abrupt policy swings by pausing a fast-track termination deadline for a specific national emergency, but it does so by delaying a timely legislative check and potentially extending emergency authorities and their economic effects.
Taxpayers and the public gain preserved executive continuity because the bill prevents an automatic accelerated termination vote for the April 2, 2025 emergency during April 9–Sept 30, 2025, reducing the risk of abrupt policy shifts tied to that emergency.
Members of Congress and their staff get more time to consider, coordinate, or prepare responses to the April 2, 2025 emergency because statutory deadlines for the related joint resolution are paused from April 9–Sept 30, 2025.
Taxpayers and the public lose the ability to promptly force termination of the national emergency because Congress's window to act is delayed between April 9 and Sept 30, 2025, weakening a timely legislative check on presidential emergency powers.
Businesses, individuals, and taxpayers may face extended regulatory, economic, or administrative measures since the President's emergency authorities remain in effect longer without a timely floor vote, potentially prolonging economic impacts tied to the emergency.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Excludes April 9–Sept 30, 2025 days from counting under 50 U.S.C. §1622 for the joint resolution to terminate the April 2, 2025 national emergency, pausing statutory timelines.
Excludes every day from April 9, 2025 through September 30, 2025 from counting as a “calendar day” under 50 U.S.C. § 1622 for the specific joint resolution to terminate the national emergency declared April 2, 2025. That pause alters the statutory six‑month recurring review and the committee/reporting/vote deadlines that would otherwise govern referral, reporting, and floor consideration of that joint resolution.
Official title: Providing for consideration of the Senate amendment to the concurrent resolution (H. Con. Res. 14) establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2025 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2026 through 2034, and for other purposes.
Introduced April 9, 2025 by Virginia Ann Foxx · Last progress April 9, 2025